Apparently the press, especially Fox, are doing a pretty good job of ignoring the whole “gay” bit of Florida’s “gay nightclub massacre,” so I imagine Republicans won’t even acknowledge this event, much less make the connection to what happened in Florida as being two examples of the same exact thing. (edit: or not, as it now seems) their own complicity with violent anti-gay rhetoric, e.g. the various Republican candidates who pal around with, and attend events hosted by, Kevin “death penalty for gays” Swanson. Now we’ve got Dan Patrick claiming that it was a total coincidence that his tweet went out when it did, but the angry response to it just proves how much “hate” there is in this country, and that’s everything that’s wrong (and not, you know, mass murder), and only Muslims kill gays, not Christians (ignore all those hate crimes and Christian countries that criminalize and kill gays). Fuck these dudes.

You really should update this. He is apparently a whackjob, and has broken a bunch of firearm laws, but he did not actually threaten the parade. He was going to go to the parade. He is troubled, and likely dangerous, but he is also bisexual with a male partner.

And the tannerite/pipebomb thing is a bit of a stretch. It is the sort of exaggeration that they use when they get a single use rocket launcher tube at a gun buyback, and then claim to have taken a WMD off the streets.

I was going to say that he never made any threats and his whole thing was basically being targeted by people who wanted to make a “terrorism” arrest. This is literally arresting someone for a crime you think they MAY commit.